Quiz  /  Historic Firsts Quiz

  • 1. 
    Who was the first popularly elected leader of Russia?

  • Vladimir Putin
  • Boris Yeltsin
  • Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Vladimir Lenin

  • 2. 
    Who was the first secretary-general of the United Nations?

  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali
  • Trygve Lie
  • Dag Hammarskjöld
  • Kurt Waldheim

  • 3. 
    Which U.S. first lady was the first to win elective office in her own right?

  • Betty Ford
  • Edith Wilson
  • Florence Harding
  • Hillary Clinton

  • 4. 
    Who was the first prime minister of Israel?

  • Golda Meir
  • David Ben-Gurion
  • Chaim Weizmann
  • Levi Eshkol

  • 5. 
    Which U.S. president was the first to gain office by a direct appeal to the voters?

  • George Washington
  • Andrew Jackson
  • Donald Trump
  • Theodore Roosevelt

  • 6. 
    Who was the first Hanoverian king of Great Britain?

  • James I
  • William I
  • George I
  • Edward I

  • 7. 
    Who was the first president of Turkey?

  • İsmet İnönü
  • Kemal Atatürk
  • Ibn Saud
  • Enver Paşa

  • 8. 
    Who was the first pope to enter the Great Synagogue of Rome?

  • Pius XI
  • John XXIII
  • Paul VI
  • John Paul II

  • 9. 
    When was December 25 first identified as the date of Christmas?

  • 12th century
  • 1st century
  • 3rd century
  • 19th century

  • 10. 
    Who was the first American woman executed for espionage?

  • Ethel Rosenberg
  • Mary Suratt
  • Lizzie Borden
  • Rosa Luxemburg

  • 11. 
    When was the use of decorated Easter eggs first recorded?

  • 4th century
  • 19th century
  • 13th century
  • 1st century

  • 12. 
    Which religious leader had a life-changing experience after meeting a sick man for the first time?

  • St. Francis of Assisi
  • Muhammad
  • the Buddha
  • Martin Luther

  • 13. 
    Who founded the Jiyūtō, Japan’s first political party?

  • Hakushaku Itagaki Taisuke
  • Koizumi Junichero
  • Ōkuma Shigenobu
  • Itō Hirobumi

  • 14. 
    Who was the first prime minister of independent Kenya?

  • Tom Mboya
  • Daniel arap Moi
  • Jomo Kenyatta
  • Oginga Odinga

  • 15. 
    Who was the first archbishop of Canterbury?

  • St. Ninian
  • St. Thomas Becket
  • St. Augustine of Canterbury
  • St. Anselm

  • 16. 
    Who was among the first European navigators to recognize that a “New World” had been discovered in the 15th century?

  • John Cabot
  • Christopher Columbus
  • Ferdinand Magellan
  • Amerigo Vespucci
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